Being careful on social media about your investments is extremely important to avoid suffering from fraud by malicious people. In this sense, a 29-year-old businessman from Paraná had approximately 250 thousand reais in cryptocurrencies diverted from his account at the Binance brokerage between April and May 2022.
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In this way, the businessman recorded the occurrence of the coup and the case is being investigated by the Civil Police department responsible for analyzing cyber crimes. In addition, according to the businessman, in the early hours of April 29, he ended up receiving five notifications via SMS with the name of the brokerage firm in which your investments were allocated, and in all messages there were codes of verification.
As the businessman became suspicious of the SMS, since he had not requested anything, he logged into his account and realized that approximately 250,000 had been diverted. “I received these codes because I have two-factor authentication, so it would be necessary for the attacker to have this authorization given by the password and e-mail and also by the code sent to the cell phone to be able to access my account. I found it very strange because until then, this was a system that I believed to be safe”, says the businessman.
However, when contacting the brokerage, the businessman received the answer that it could not do anything. “[Binance] collaborates with local authorities for market development and regulation, as well as as well as in possible investigations, to prevent malicious people from using the platform,” said the company.
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